A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of the modern world.
Marina Amaral is a talented Brazilian artist who specializes in the colourization of historical photographs. Dan Jones is a historian and bestselling author of The Templars, Magna Carta and The Plantagenets.
A clever, deftly executed book... Marina Amaral has chosen 200
black-and-white photographs, taken between 1850 and 1960, and
skilfully colourised them, which gives them new life, new relevance
and new power... Dan Jones gives a nicely thoughtful commentary to
it all'
*Daily Mail, Coffee Table Books of the Year*
Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is
sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour... Truth be
told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always
colourful'
*The Times, Books of the Year*
[The Colour of Time] does something simple yet extraordinary. It
takes black-and-white photos of historic events and colours them
in. The effect is transformative
*Daily Telegraph*
There is something of The Wizard of Oz about Marina Amaral's
photographs. She whisks us from black-and-white Kansas to
shimmering Technicolor Oz... When you see Amaral's coloured
portraits, you think: phwoar!... She changes the way we see a
period or a person'
*Spectator*
The effect of colour is far more transformative than you might
imagine... [Amaral's] touched-up photographs look even more
realistic, and closer to life, than a photograph taken yesterday...
Extraordinary'
*Mail on Sunday*
What also elevates The Colour of Time above regular coffee table
fare is the startling vivacity and impact of the photographs
chosen, and the concise but focused and gripping texts by Jones,
making the book a worthwhile cover-to-cover read as much as it
serves as a showcase book to dip into at will
*All About History*
Spanning more than 100 years of world history, from Queen Victoria
to the Cuban missile crisis, this book offers a fresh perspective
on the past by transforming the black and white photographs that
defined global events into full colour
*BBC History*
Illustrator Marina Amaral has digitally colourised 200 historic
black-and-white photographs, making them look as though they were
taken yesterday. Dan Jones explains the historical context of each
startling image
*Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year*
I have long considered colourisation sacrilege... after reading
this book, I've changed my mind'
*The Times.*
The most breathtakingly colourised black-and-white pictures
ever
*Daily Mail.*
Both revelatory and familiar. Amaral's skills bring 19th- and early
20th-century photographic images to wholly unexpected and vivid
life... Jones offers perceptive commentary, contextualising the
events and people depicted with concise skill, meaning that this
fine book is hugely readable'
*Observer*
Jones sketches the historical context with wry economy. Even
familiar images take on a new dimension in colour
*Daily Mirror*
Stunning photos. The perfect gift for any historian
*Bristol Life*
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